Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 2

It was opened by another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their heads.

Who acts: footman, footmen, hair · What happens: open, notice, powder, curl · To what, where: door, hair, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footman, footmen, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	aux:pass
3	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 footman	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 footman	det
6	footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 livery	case
8	livery	livery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 footman	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 face	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 face	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 face	det
12	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 face	amod
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eyes	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eyes	cc
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 face	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 frog	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 frog	det
20	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eyes	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 noticed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 noticed	cc
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 footmen	det
24	footmen	footman	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 noticed	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 footmen	punct
26	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 noticed	nsubj
27	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 powdered	punct
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 powdered	aux
30	powdered	powder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 noticed	ccomp
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 powdered	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 curled	nsubj
33	curled	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 hair	acl:relcl
34	all	all	ADV	_	37 heads	advmod
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 heads	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 heads	nmod:poss
37	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 curled	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	open	past · passive	another footman in livery	door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	notice	past	both footmen			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	powder	past · perfect		hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	curl	past	hair		eyes's heads	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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